Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey has submitted a notice to move a substantive motion against Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi for “immoral conduct” and to set up a parliamentary inquiry committee to probe his “continuous misdeeds to destabilize the country and revoke his ‘MP status’.”
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi with sister and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi at Parliament Square. (ANI)A separate notice under Rule 380 was filed by BJP chief whip Sanjay Jaiswal on Wednesday seeking removal of at least four lines of Gandhi’s speech.
In his notice, Dubey accused Gandhi of “immoral conduct” and said “he has become a major element in the ‘Thugri Gang’ to destabilize India”.
Dube objected to Gandhi’s speech, referring to the unpublished book by former Army Chief General (retd) Manoj Mukund Naravaan, alleging that it was “made with the deliberate intention of defaming the Indian Army along with the Defense Ministry while shamefully implicating the Prime Minister.”
The BJP MLA later said that this was not the first time that Gandhi had tried to create controversy with the intention of defaming the government – be it on defence, finance, trade or foreign affairs.
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He accused Gandhi of being an “active carrier of the Soros Foundation, which is infamous worldwide, for destabilizing various countries for the benefit of their client states”.
People aware of the development said the government would not bring any privilege motion against the opposition leader. A person familiar with the matter said Union Minister Hardeep Puri would “personally answer” the allegations leveled against him against Gandhi.
In his notice, Jaiswal sought the removal of phrases such as “Sold India”, “Sold India Mata” and “The US trade deal is a humiliating act”, among others.
Jaiswal also alleged that Gandhi “did not do prior authentication before making some baseless allegations”.
